A single consultation resource for image-diagnosis orientation and follow up recommendations in Aortic Pathology

A single consultation resource for image-diagnosis orientation and follow up recommendations in Aortic Pathology. Our CMO, Joan Fité MD PhD presents his new book. VRAIn’s Chief Medical Officer Joan Fité MD PhD, in collaboration with the Aortic Pathology Unit in the Vascular Surgery Department of Hospital de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau, has recently published a book on behalf of the vascular diagnosis section of the Spanish Vascular Surgery Society (Capítulo de diagnóstico vascular de la SEACV) entitled “Documento de consulta para el diagnósgico y seguimiento de la patología aórtica”. This document includes information on many different medical imaging modalities relating to aortic diseases, study recommendations and diagnostic criteria. Its aim is to become a daily clinical practice consulting source and to help trainees and young specialists’ learn on aortic disease diagnosis.

The book includes imaging features found in different aortic diseases when using the most common medical imaging modalities. These are CT scans, MRI, duplex ultrasound and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS).

Apart from giving image-diagnosis orientation, this publication includes a chapter summarizing the main follow-up recommendations from different medical specialty’s clinical guidelines, in order to give global knowledge and to be useful for all different specialists involved in aortic pathology as a single consultation resource. Recommendations from ESVS, SVS, ACC-AHA and ACTS last guidelines are included and summarized.

This document’s aim is to become a daily-practise fast consulting resource. Aortic diseases are a wide, complex area with information and criteria often divided between different medical specialties and scientific societies. Thus, our document pretends to be an achievable, easily manageable resource for all different clinicians involved to get answer to common doubts that arise from aortic medical imaging.

This book is as well aiming to be an educational document for young staff specialists and trainees. By including different specialties concepts relating to aortic imaging, and summarizing many different clinical guidelines that would otherwise be massively extensive, the length and the internal structure of the document make it useful and “feasible” to study. All contents and images included may lead any doctor interested in aortic disease diagnosis to a global understanding of the disease, to the image identification of many different aortic pathologies, to appropriate image modality indication when suspecting a specific aortic disease, and to give adequate follow-up needed by aortic disease patients.

This book will be presented and free book copies will be given in the annual National Congress of the Spanish Vascular Surgery Society (SEACV) that will be held in Madrid in June 2024.